Is it better now?
I actually got a rather bad case of conjunctivitis the week before I got my kindle (on Feb. 15th) and was so photophobic (never had pain like it.. was like a migraine in my eyeballs) I couldn't deal with any amount of light for about a week. I was REALLY wishing I had the Kindle then.
Being struck temporarily blind, aside from the pain and the sheer...trauma of it, it was SO BORING!